Boy, 8, Found in Stolen Car After He Slept Through Auto Theft

A sleeping 8-year-old boy was found in a stolen car Monday less than four hours after being unknowingly kidnapped as he slept.

Brock Guzman was found just two miles away from where the Toyota Corolla he was in was stolen out of his California driveway, Fox News said. Guzman’s father had carried his sleeping son out to the car about 4:45 a.m. Monday and then gone back in the house for his older son and other things.

When he returned, the car was gone and a bicycle was lying nearby.

"We don't for sure if he slept through the whole thing, but it looks that way," Fairfield police Officer Kathryn McCormick said of finding Brock four hours later. "We hope that was the case."

"He was asleep in the car and when he woke up the guy said he didn't know he was in the car. So he pulled over, got out of car and my boy went back to sleep," said Paul Guzman, Brock’s father.

The young boy told his parents that he wasn’t scared, but that wasn’t the case for his parents.

“I was just distraught all morning. It was the first time I didn't know if my son was OK," Suzanne Guzman, Brock's mom, told ABC 7.

Suzanne Guzman said her husband was helping her out by warming up the car before she headed out to drive Brock to school and then to work.

When they heard the car had been found with Brock safely inside, Guzman told ABC, “It was amazing. I was just completely overcome with goosebumps. I just wanted to squeeze him. I probably hurt him a little, but he's doing well.”